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I and Thou
Ich und Du
His principal philosophical work, written in Heppenheim and published by Insel in 1923. In three parts of aphoristic prose it distinguishes two human attitudes, expressed in the "primary words" I-Thou and I-It: relation, which occurs with the whole being and in the present, and experience, which objectifies and uses. It then examines how modern civilisation has hypertrophied the world of It and concludes with the relation to the "eternal Thou", God, who can only be addressed, not described. In 1957 he added an afterword. Translated into dozens of languages, it influenced twentieth-century theology, pedagogy, psychotherapy and philosophy.
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English
I and Thou
Bloomsbury Academic, 2013
Translation: Ronald Gregor Smith
ISBN 9781472511461
I and Thou
Scribner, 2000
Translation: Ronald Gregor Smith
ISBN 9780743201339
I and Thou
Scribner / Touchstone, 1996
Translation: Walter Kaufmann
ISBN 9780684717258
Nueva traducción con prólogo «I and You» (1970).
Deutsch
Martin Buber
Ich und Du
The Conscious LibraryIch und Du
Insel-Verlag, 1923
Primera edición; ejemplar digitalizado en Internet Archive.
Ich und Du
Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 1997
ISBN 9783579025728
Ich und Du
Reclam, 2021
ISBN 9783150141717
Reclams Universal-Bibliothek 14171.
Français
Русский
Martin Buber
Ya i ty
The Conscious LibraryYa i ty
Vysshaya shkola, 1993
Translation: Yu. S. Terentiev
ISBN-10 5060028577.
Español
Martin Buber
Yo y tú y otros ensayos
The Conscious LibraryYo y tú y otros ensayos
Ediciones Lilmod, 2006
ISBN 9789872262839
Hebreo
Martin Buber
Ani ve-atah
The Conscious LibraryAni ve-atah
Mosad Bialik, 2013
Translation: Aharon Flashman
ISBN 9789655360530
Other works by Martin Buber
- On the History of the Problem of Individuation (Nicholas of Cusa and Jakob Böhme) · 1904
- A Jewish University · 1902
- Jewish Artists · 1903
- The Tales of Rabbi Nachman · 1906
- The Legend of the Baal-Shem · 1908
- Ecstatic Confessions · 1909
- Sayings and Parables of Zhuangzi · 1910
- Chinese Ghost and Love Stories · 1911
- Three Addresses on Judaism · 1911
- Daniel: Dialogues on Realization · 1913
- The Four Branches of the Mabinogi · 1914
- On the Spirit of Judaism · 1916
- The Jewish Movement: Collected Essays and Addresses · 1916
- Events and Meetings · 1917
- The Discourse, the Teaching and the Song · 1917
- My Way to Hasidism · 1918
- The Holy Way · 1919
- Words to the Time · 1919
- The Great Maggid and His Succession · 1922
- The Hidden Light · 1924
- Die Schrift (German Bible translation, with Franz Rosenzweig) · 1926
- The Baal Shem Tov's Instruction in Intercourse with God · 1927
- The Hasidic Books · 1928
- Dialogue · 1932
- Kingship of God · 1932
- The Struggle for Israel · 1933
- One Hundred Hasidic Tales · 1933
- Tales of Angels, Spirits and Demons · 1934
- Interpretation of Hasidism · 1935
- The Question to the Single One · 1936
- The Hour and Its Judgment · 1936
- Scripture and Translation · 1936
- What Is Man? · 1942
- The Prophetic Faith · 1942
- Gog and Magog (For the Sake of Heaven) · 1943
- Moses: The Revelation and the Covenant · 1945
- Israel and Palestine: The History of an Idea (On Zion) · 1945
- Paths in Utopia · 1946
- Dialogical Life · 1947
- The Way of Man according to the Teaching of Hasidism · 1948
- Tales of the Hasidim · 1949
- Two Types of Faith · 1950
- Distance and Relation · 1951
- Images of Good and Evil · 1952
- Right and Wrong: An Interpretation of Some Psalms · 1952
- At the Turning: Three Addresses on Judaism · 1952
- Eclipse of God · 1952
- Pointing the Way: Collected Essays · 1953
- Addresses on Education · 1953
- Genuine Dialogue and the Possibilities of Peace · 1953
- Elements of the Interhuman · 1954
- The Dialogical Principle · 1954
- Man and His Image-Work · 1955
- Prophecy: Beginning and Outcome · 1955
- Guilt and Guilt Feelings · 1958
- Meetings: Autobiographical Fragments · 1960
- Logos: Two Addresses · 1962
- Works (3 volumes) · 1962
- Elijah: A Mystery Play · 1963
- The Jew and His Judaism · 1963
- A Believing Humanism: Gleanings · 1965
- The Letters of Martin Buber: A Life of Dialogue · 1972
- A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs · 1983
- Martin Buber Werkausgabe (critical edition) · 2001
Sources
- Buber, Martin. Ich und Du. Leipzig: Insel-Verlag, 1923 (ejemplar digitalizado en Internet Archive, «ich-und-du»).
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